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As a Splunk administrator, have you ever needed to list out your saved searches in some way? Perhaps you need to know which searches might be accelerated, scheduled, or even real-time scheduled? Here's a quick dashboard to show this information.

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If you work with the Markdown markup language, it's only a matter of time before you need to escape the markdown formatting characters. For instance, pasting source code into Trello cards requires the text to be escaped or else certain characters of the source code will be interpreted as markdown.

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Indulge me for just a moment, and consider a future in which you choose a bank just as easily as you choose a gas station. Where banks charge competitive fees for the useful commodity services that they actually provide. Where the banks don't hold a monopoly on access to the financial system. Where individuals like you and I can autonomously contribute to the development and improvement of the financial system.

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I just discovered that Simple XML dashboards in Splunk can be customized with JavaScript! That's right, the point and click dashboards can be customized in a very powerful way. Here's the official docs, and an official example.

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Although it's often possible--and recommended--to avoid the join command, sometimes it is necessary to use join. I was recently exploring the performance impact of the join command and I wanted to share my findings.

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Part of being a responsible software engineer includes the systems engineering process of configuration management. Although backups and access controls are a necessary part of maintaining a secure IT system, relying on these processes for configuration management is inefficient and dangerous.